To further strengthen its executive board, Ziehl-Abegg has announced the appointment of an additional member to meet future growth.
In a formal statement the company announced the appointment of COO, Dr. Klaus Weiß as an addition to the existing three-member executive board.
The other board members are CEO and board chair, Peter Fenkl, CFO Achim Curd Rägle and CTO Norbert Schuster.
"We see ourselves as a customer-orientated company which is moving away from business division structures in its orientation and turning towards a clear, function-based organisation," the statement said.
"In the future our internal organisation will be based on the four central pillars of development, production, sales, and finance. Therefore the previous areas of responsibility will be clearly aligned on these four groups."
Dr Weiß completed his engineering studies at the Technical University Karlsruhe, specialising in fluid kinetic machinery and manufacturing technology. He then did his PhD at the Turbo Engine Faculty of the Technical University Darmstadt.
"The aim of this alignment is to enable us to better meet the major national and international challenges and to set the course today for the continued strong growth of Ziehl-Abegg in the future," he said.